Word: ahuramazda
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Xerxes relates that he had difficulties with some of his subjects who worshipped forbidden gods, but that he "sapped the foundations" of the outlaw temples, restored the cult of the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The Institute's Orientalists took this to mean that Xerxes' father, Darius, who probably heard the preaching of Zoroaster himself, enforced the new religion on unwilling priests and they, at Darius' death, tried to return to their old ways...
...great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth . . . that heaven . . . man . . . peace for mankind, who made Xerxes king. . . . My father is Darius. ... He wrought many excellent things. . . . When my father Darius went away from the throne, by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king. ... I wrought many excellent things...
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